Sentence examples for sunnite from inspiring English sources

Baghdad, situated near the geographic centre, reflected within itself the division between the predominantly Shīʿite south and the largely Sunnite north.

Shortly afterward, the new Mamlūk ruler of Egypt, Barqūq, with whom he was to remain on good terms except for one or two brief periods of misunderstanding, appointed him to a professorship of jurisprudence at the Quamḥiyyah college and, within five months, made him chief judge of the Mālikī rite, one of the four recognized rites of Sunnite Islam.

The origin and basis of the office of imam was conceived differently by various sections of the Muslim community, this difference providing part of the political and religious basis for the split into Sunnite and Shīʿite Islām.

Not far from Beirut, the army entered the territory of the Fāṭimid caliphs of Cairo, who, as Shīʿite Muslims, were enemies of the Sunnite Seljuqs and the caliphs of Baghdad.

Because of Toghrïl Beg's victory over the Būyids in Baghdad in 1055, the Seljuqs came to be seen as the restorers of Muslim unity under the Sunnite caliphate.

The first four caliphs, who are the ṣaḥābah held in highest esteem among Sunnite Muslims, are part of a group of 10 Companions to whom Muḥammad promised paradise.

The Ottoman Turks, as strict Sunnites, preferred turbans of other colours, which, elaborately wound, served to distinguish the wearer from a non-Muslim.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani makes public a letter he delivered to UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warning that he will not cooperate with the UN in any way if the UN endorses the recently signed interim constitution; Shi'ites, the majority in Iraq, object to provisions that would increase the powers of minorities, in particular Sunnites and Kurds.

Religious unity, too, had long since crumbled: in addition to the division of Islām into two major groups the Sunnites and the Shīʿites countless small sects had developed, often with the support of local rulers.

When Jewish-Muslim relations became strained, however, Muhammad made Ramadan the Muslim month of fasting, leaving the ʿĀshūrāʾ fast a voluntary observance, as it has remained among the Sunnites.

Meanwhile, Ottoman civil administrators and army officers, virtually all of whom were Sunnites, came to constitute a political elite that carried over into post-1918 Iraq.